IvyClan/FrostClan confrontation

[Seafeather]

Seastar

"Stop!" Seastar snarrled. Badgerface stopped in his tracks. "You were going to invade weren't you?" Seastar was going to lure them over the border. The dimwitted IvyClan cats didn't know that she wasn't alone. When the other cats attack, her warriors would come jumping in. And Spottedwing, she knew, would fight for her life to protect her. And she appreciated it. Spottedwing would be talked about for generations after her about her greatness.

Spottedwing

Spottedwing crouched lower into the tall grass that she hid in. She would give her life for her leader and her clanmate. She would keep an eye on them at all times. Woodstripes would be someone to keep an eye on. She would fight her.

[.M.i.d.n.i.g.h.t.i.e.]

Woodstripes

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Woodstripes kept a serious face for a moment, looking at Seastar. Then, she chuckled. Which crescendoed into a laugh.

"You're so paranoid Seastar!" Woodstripes meowed with a sickly sweet voice, plainly seen as forced. "We're allowed to patrol our borders if we want to, silly little kitty."

She turned so that her face was seen by her patrol, and not be Seastar for a moment. Her expression was,"Just play along!"

She then trotted along the border, and meowed,"Seastar, you have a pretty big patrol, but why are they hiding?" She then continued to taunt,"I can scent them as plain as day. If this is a training exercise, tell them they fail from hiding from us. I suggest masking your scent next time, maybe with the nearby ferns? You know, roll around in them? Might also hide your smelly scent."

She finished her taunt, clearly making fun of the FrostClan warriors. She looked around for one more moment, then meowed to her patrol,"No sign of any cats crossing over, let's continue on!" Her purple gaze shifted to the FrostClan warriors. " And, I suggest you go back to camp FrostClan. Cross over, and we'll rip your fur off." She unsheathed her claws for emphasis, then signaled to her patrol to follow her.

[Seafeather]

Spottedwing

Spottedwing seethed with rage. "This cat CANNOT insult my leader!" She yowled internally. She slunk through the grass, and like lightning jumped, stretched out her claws and dug them into Woodstripes back. "You're gonna pay!" She snarled. Spottedwing sunk her fangs into Woodstripe's neck. She clung on while the shecat tried to throw her off. Digging in her fangs even deeper than she'd ever gone before. She was going to go for the killing blow.

Seastar

"Spottedwing no!" Seastar snarrled at her warrior as she clutched onto Woodstripe's back. the other warriors followed to take Spottedwing off their clanmates back. Seastar couldn't hold herself back any longer She lunged into the battle. Fur, and blood was flying everywhere. This could be the war that was meant to be.

Badgerface

Badgerface lunged after Spottedwing while yowling "No!" He bit at her tail, her neck, even scratched her belly but she wouldn't let go. With the last blow she would have to. He scratched her face, and her belly, then but her tail with all his might. She finally let go to face her attacker. Blood spilled from her mouth. Badgerface was lost in fury. He lunged at her throat. The two cats fought in a writhing ball of fur and claws.

[Kat]

Hollowbranch

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Hollowbranch watched as Spottedwing attacked Woodstripes.
She turned her attention to Seastar. "You'll pay for this, Seastar!" Badgerface was already working on getting Spottedwing off of Woodstripes, so Hollowbranch went over to help. She felt someone hit her back, and turned to see Seastar. She lunged at the leader without a moments pause.

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Woodstripes

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Woodstripes shook with pain, unable to see out of one eye on account of blood bleeding from a cut over her eye. She stood up, but slowly, all her wounds aching.

"You see what you've done?!" she rasped, horrified as Badgerface and Spottedwing fought. "Seastar, StarClan have pity on you!" She staggered forward, trying to get Spottedwing off of her friend. She gasped when a hindpaw from Spottedwing caught her along the jaw, and sent her sprawling back. She landed in a heap of fur, and groaned to Hollowbranch,"Help...Badgerface...please..!"

A dark shadow couldn't watch any longer, and sprang into the fight.

Ravenslash

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Ravenslash ran forawrd quickly, making quick work of the fight. He reached a front paw forward in a leap, his hind paw catching on the back of Badgerface's head. he dislodged the two with one swift movement, and landed down. The huge dark cat towered over them as he snarled,"ENOUGH!"

He bared his teeth at Spottedwing, and hissed, "That fight was clearly unprovoked. There was no reason to. They did not threaten our borders." He turned his attention to Badgerface.

"Continue the battle, and I will kill you, IvyClan warrior," he growled. The huge tom made eye contact with Spottedwing, and he nodded his head away from the IvyClan warriors.

"Move," he growled. As he walked towards the FrostClan warriors, he limped. A huge gash from separating the two fighting cats ran up from his paw to his elbow, and it was flowing with blood.

[Seafeather]

Seastar

"Ravenslash!" Seastar gasped. "Spottedwing meet with me in my den!" She snarrled. "Stay clear of our borders." Seastar murmurred to the IvyClan cats and she flicked her tail for her warriors to follow.

Spottedwing

Spottedwing hunkered down. She saw Badgerface run to Woodstripes with wild eyes. "What if I killed her!" Spottedwing thought with wide eyes. "I've never done that before." Spottedwing trotted infront of the others to be by herself. Seastar was mad, and Spottedwing would pay for it.

Badgerface

"Woodstripes!" Badgerface cried. His eyes overflowed with worry as he gazed down at the beautiful shecat. He started to lick her wounds. Her blood was hot, and tasted like salt. He started to moan over her when she spoke. Showing that she would live.

[Kat]

Hollowbranch

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Hollowbranch watched Seastar leave with a look of pure hatred.
"Seastar, you will pay for this!" Hollowbranch yowled. "Mark my words!" She then turned her attention to her best friend. She was extremely hurt. She growled in anger. "Badgerface, run and get Stormleaf, now." She watched Bagerface run to do what she had ordered.
Hollowbranch started to lick Woodstripe's wounds. They ran deep. "It's okay," Hollowbranch murmured softly to Woodstripes. "everything is going to be okay,"

[Seafeather]

Badgerface

Badgerface ran back to the camp, rushed into the medicine cats den but no Stormleaf wasn't here. "No!" Badgerface ran out the camp to search the forest, he found cobwebs. He knew they would staunch the flow of blood. He returned to Hollowbranch and Woodstripes with his paw swathed in the sticky web.

[Kat]

Hollowbranch

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Badgerface came back with a paw of cobwebs.
"Where is Stormleaf?" Hollowbranch snapped, but then she remembered- he had gone to get herbs near SnakeClan border. She hissed in frustraion. "You put those on her, I'm going to get Stormleaf." She raced into the forest without waiting for a response.
Hollowbranch hadn't done much fighting, so she was in better shape than Badgerface was. She knew that Woodstripes needed a medicine cat, if she was going to live.

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It had been a warm, clear morning the day after the Gathering, and Smokeleaf had her nose and mouth open to catch every scent. The medicine cat had been hunting for yarrow, and her steps had brought her to the IvyClan border. The westerly wind was warm against her face... but as she looked up from a convenient bunch of the white flowers, she smelt blood. "Seastar!" she growled under her breath, already running as fast as she could towards the scent. There would be only one reason that she could smell blood so soon after that disastrous Gathering, and Seastar's tactlessness lay at the center of it.

She came just in time to see Seastar turning for home, Spottedwing at her heels. Over on the IvyClan side of the territory lay a she-cat, stood over by two IvyClan warriors. She was bleeding heavily from a wound, probably in her abdomen or neck, judging by the standing she-cat's worried face, and Smokeleaf didn't have to be a mind-reader to know what had going on here. Without a second thought, she crossed the IvyClan border and delicately scooped the cobwebs off the large black-and-white tom's paw. "Out of my way, all of you," she snapped, oblivious to any anger that they might have at her being on their territory. Smokeleaf only had eyes for the she-cat -Willowstripe or something, wasn't it?- and her wound, which was running with blood. The she-cat's wound was bad: it was deep, and Smokeleaf had no way of knowing how close it had gone to the vein. At least that clumsy tom had gotten her what she needed. But even as she glanced, up, ready to snap commands at the warriors, she spotted her leader's retreating back, and her expression became livid.
"Seastar!" she yowled, carefully applying the cobwebs in thick clumps. "Don't you dare run away from this!" But she would deal with Seastar later. Leader or not, that cat had no respect for the lives of others. Running off like that?! And without at least making sure that Redleaf was here? They were standing around like kits whose favourite toy she'd just trodden on. "You," she barked at the she-cat, but didn't get a chance to finish her sentence, as the she-cat was already off and running. Smokeleaf could only hope that she was after Redleaf. IvyClan's medicine cat was almost as good as her own mentor had been. "A poultice. Marigold," she murmured to herself, feeling a little sick as she examined the clean, neat punctures. "Or goldenrod, if you can't find it."
Then, applying stronger pressure as the blood began to seep through the cobwebs, she turned to the black-and-white tom. "And you. Get me cobwebs, and preferably Redleaf. He should be here already, not leaving me to clear this mess up." Great StarClan, what did they teach warriors these days?

((OOC: Whoops, sorry Kat! I didn't realise you were posting, and then I modified the thread because I thought Hollowbranch had run away :X XD))

[Kat]

Hollowbranch

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Hollowbranch was about to hiss in defiance as she heard a cat coming over the border, but when she turned to see Smokeleaf crossing, she shut her mouth. Hollowbranch was not as simple-minded as to deny Woodstripes help from a medicine cat, no matter what clan they were from. Hollowbranch watched worriedly while Smokeleaf took the cobwebs from Badgerface and applied them to Woodstripes' wound. Hollowbranch even kept quiet when the old medicine cat called Seastar back over.
"You!" Smokeleaf barked, looking at Hollowbranch. "Get me some marigold, now, or goldenrod if you can't find it." Hollowbranch nodded and dashed off into the forest towards IvyClan camp. She knew exactly where marrigold was. Stormleaf kept it underneath the poppy seeds- Hollowbranch had accidentally grabbed that instead of poppy seeds when she had had a stomach ache.
She raced into camp, not stopping to say anything to whomever questioned why she was running. Right now, all she could think about was Woodstripes...

[//Sunneh// is FuMiNg]

Stormleaf

Stormleaf limped as fast as he could to the battlezone. Curse this crippled leg, he muttered through clenched teeth. If anycat dies because of my weakness, I'll never forgive myself. Stormleaf let out a low growl, when he finally reached the battlezone. He dropped his bundle of herbs next to Woodstripes. The pretty she-cat was bleeding heavily with no sign of slowing in the blood flow. He nodded curtly to Smokeleaf, slightly embarassed, then carefully helped apply the herbs, his green eyes narrowed into emerald slits.

OOC: Sorry I'm so late! DX

[Seafeather]

Seastar

Seastar turned around to face Smokeleaf. She respected Smokeleaf, but sometimes it wasn't her place to say things. "Don't you dare say that this was my fault! The one who's fault it is will be punished." Seastar glared at Spottedwing who hunkered down. "I think we should talk here and now Spottedwing." Spottedwing's eyes lowered in embarrasment. "That was completely uncalled for! I'm a big cat, I can handle taunts myself," she snarled. "you need to control your emotions Spottedwing! You embarassed me today. I thought my warriors had better training than this." She lowered her voice as she continued, "I know you were just trying to protect me Spottedwing, but I can take care of myself. When you see me lying dead on the ground, that's when I want to see you protecting me." Seastar released her gaze with Spottedwing who was trembling, and turned it to Smokeleaf. "Besides another medicine cat, what do you need? Spottedwing, Ravenslash return to the camp, please."

Spottedwing

Spottedwing turned tail and fled the sight. I was only protecting you Seastar! She yowled in her mind. Spottedwing yoweled caterwauls into the air as she left FrostClan territory to go to her favorite spot outside the clans. The pond.

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Silentstar

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Silentstar saw Hollowbranch enter camp...without the other three?

"Hollowbranch! Stop!" he ordered, his ice blue eyes narrowed. He could see that the black warrior was covered in scratches. His annoyance turned to worry.

"Where are the others?" he asked, looking around. "Did FrostClan attack you? I scent a lot of blood on you, but it isn't all yours." Silentstar padded towards the entrance of the clan, and meowed,"I'm coming with with you. This sounds like they attacked you. Did you disguise yourselves as a patrol at least? Now would be a good time to disguise ourselves as the innocent, and let FrostClan take the blame."

Woodstripes

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Woodstripes was bordering on the line of consciousness. She watched the shapes around her move, and a another dark shape join the others. Was the stories her mother told her as a kit true? There were really dark cat spirits that haunt the soon-to-be dead? Another white shape joined the hazy, feverish sight before her. Badgerface.

"He must be a Starclan warrior," Woodstripes thought. " He must be vanquishing the dark cat, so that he can take my soul instead. But why didn't Badgerface tell me he was a StarClan warrior?"

Voices called out to her in fear. She couldn't quite make them out. They seemed worried, but about what? The dark specter?

"Guys," she thought,"It's okay. Badgerface is a StarClan warrior, the specter won't take me to the Dark Forest." But they still sounded worried. Why?

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Ravenslash

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Ravenslash watched Spottedwing run off. He sighed, knowing how horrible it must be to have all the blame on her shoulders. He thought of talking to her, and offering condolences, but the fellow warrior did need to be punished. If she wanted to talk to him he might reply.